[2], ccxii p., [3], XXXVIII [i.e. 50] leaves of plates (some folded) : 54 cm. (fol.)

The title is taken from the Latin title-plate

Parallel texts in Latin and Italian

G.G. Bottari and others may have contributed to the text

With a portrait frontispiece of Pope Clement XIII, engraved by Domenico Cunego

Twelve of the numbered plates are on double leaves

Because of the similar subject matter, copies of this work were frequently bound with Piranesi's Osservazioni di Gio Battista Piranesi sopra la lettre de M. Mariette .... Rome : [Generoso Salomoni], 1765. See the Royal Inst. of Brit. Architects cat., nos. 2552, 2563

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